Medova Anastasia Anatolievna (Russian: Мёдова Анастасия Анатольевна) is a Russian musicologist, Doctor of Philosophy, Professor of the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Siberian State University of Science and Technology named after M.F. Reshetnev, Professor of the Department of Music and Art Education of the Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical University named after V.P. Astafyev.
She was born on September 24, 1977 in the city of Yurga, Kemerovo region. In 1996 she graduated from the Kemerovo Music College, Department of Music Theory. In 2002, she graduated from the Krasnoyarsk State Academy of Music and Theater (since 2017 - the Siberian State Institute of Arts named after Dmitry Hvorostovsky) with a degree in Musicology. The topic of the thesis is "Slow movements of A. Bruckner's symphonies in the aspect of differentiation of subject and object in musical content", scientific director Irina Viktorovna Efimova I.V., Professor, Candidate of Art History. After postgraduate studies (2003-2005) at the Siberian State Technological University with a degree in Philosophy, she successfully defended her PhD thesis "Autonomous rationalistic model of human essence" (specialty 09.00.11). In 2016 she defended her doctoral thesis "Ontology of modality". Anastasia Anatolyevna, within the framework of the philosophical theory developed.
Currently, she specializes in the study of the ontology of music, having proposed the allocation of four layers of musical time - physical, astronomical, psychological and musical proper. Within the framework of the study of psychology and phenomenology of musical perception, she examined the traditional understanding of musicians' color hearing as a spontaneous association to a certain pitch of sound, justified it as a synesthetic reaction to the presence of a certain sound-pitch acoustic system (tonality, temperament relations).
The field of scientific interests of A.A. Medova is connected with phenomenology, transcendental philosophy, modality theory, co-knowledge research, ontology and phenomenology of music. Among the most important scientific publications are monographs.